He understood that clear, smooth speech is something everyone should strive for, and treasure.
Vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence won an enthusiastic, if not quite rapturous, reception for a smooth speech that framed the election efficiently thus: "It's change versus status quo".
While a state-of-the-art concatenative method [1, 2] for TTS is capable of synthesizing natural and smooth speech for a specific voice, an SSS-based approach [3, 4] has the strength to produce a diverse spectrum of voices without requiring significant amount of new data.
Butler goes on to contrast Romney's gaffe during the London Olympics -- the one that briefly made the special relationship less special -- to Obama's smooth speech to the United Nations advocating America's vision for the world.
"People who have a genuine passion for food are going to seek my website out... .. notes Mr. Cheeseboro, whose smooth speech and cinematic vocabulary never fail to punctuate his commanding presence.
Over-smooth speech with too-slow transitions may affect the production of the appropriate DoA, and important information on style/personality may be loss.
In the end the race may be decided by the number of votes won by a feisty third-party candidate, Chris Daggett, who mocks both Republican and Democrat with gusto.Democrats down in the Old DominionMeanwhile, outside a store that sells pumpkins and hunting rifles in Stuart, Virginia, Bob McDonnell is making a smooth stump speech about clean coal, fish-farming, debt and democracy.
Here there's a perversely arresting track called "29th, 1936 'Me Warn You,' " which samples the main passage of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "smooth evasion" speech — a gem of withering sarcasm, at the expense of his opposing party — and redraws it in Cubist fashion.
Practice smooth, clear speech.
